From a purely legal and technical perspective, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s situation has not changed today. For the last three years, he was the target of police probes and a suspect in criminal investigations. That remains his status after Avichai Mendelblit’s decision Thursday evening to indict him for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases, pending a hearing.

As the standard form of the letter Netanyahu received from the attorney general put it, “he is considering indicting” him. Nothing final. Just considering.

Yet everything has now changed for Netanyahu. The police conduct hundreds of thousands of investigations annually. Tens of thousands are handed onto the Justice Ministry’s prosecutors. Only about a quarter of them result in indictments pending hearings.

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